THE WATERY PART OF THE WORLD: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 00342510B39673

English Summary/英文概要： Beautifully interweaving history, adventure, and longing, Michael Parker charts the birth and death of a tiny island and the inhabitants who are tethered to it. Opening in 1813, Parker conjures the real-life disappearance at sea of Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of a controversial vice president, imagining her narrow escape from death at the hands of pirates. Stranded amid hostile people in equally hostile terrain, Theo begins a tentative friendship with a former pirate, endangering them both in her efforts to reclaim what she has lost. Parallel to Theo’s story is the modern-day tale of her descendants, two elderly sisters who together with an aged black man are the last people clinging to an inhospitable island. Their passions and resentments play out as the island is battered by storms, gradually revealing the past which has tied them together even as it has torn their lives apart.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 错综美丽的历史、冒险和渴求。Michael Parker向我们描绘了一座小岛的生与死和一群与小岛相依为命的岛民。故事发生在1813年，现实生活中消失的副总统女儿Theodosia Burr Alston在Parker的笔下从海盗的手中捡回一条性命。在这个充满敌意的地方，与一群充满敌意的人生活在一起，Theo开始跟一个金盆洗手的海盗慢慢结成了朋友，他们因要夺回属于自己的东西而陷入危险的境地。而在现代，Theo的子孙，一对年迈的姐妹和一个黑人老头一起成为那座小岛的最后守卫者。随着一场暴风雪的降临，过去的真相被一点点揭露出来，当他们发现彼此的命运紧紧相连后，所有的怨怼便烟消云散。(兼职翻译-LN)

Awards/获奖情况：“Present and past, history and imagination—all are seamlessly intertwined in this remarkable novel. Michael Parker is a novelist of immense talent.” ---Ron Rash, author of Serena
“《水上世界》很好地印证了William Faulkner所说的‘过往不死，甚至没有过去。’现在和过去，历史和幻想——全都纠缠在这部小说中。Michael Parker真是个天才小说家。”——Ron Rash，《Serena》的作者

"There’s a big-hearted fearlessness in Michael Parker’s work that, quite honestly, I envy."---COLUM McCANN, winner of the National Book Award
“Michael Parker的作品中展示了他大无畏的心，非常直白，让我嫉妒。”——Colum McCann, 因《让大世界旋转吧》一书赢得美国国家图书奖

i"Parker invokes magic as well as mystery in exploring the ways the past not only haunts the present but in some ways anticipates it. Like Faulkner and O’Connor, Parker creates a place of beauty and complexity which, in the end, one is reluctant to leave...A vividly imagined historical tale of isolated lives."---Kirkus Reviews

“This is a highly readable study of fear, compulsion, and what it means to be trapped. The writing is smoky and beautiful; the lonely island setting is the most compelling character in the story. Against this backdrop, Parker delves into the human heart and distills for his readers the truths found there.”---Library Journal

“Parker slices open each isolated life with humor and gentleness, and the familiar battles with loss and loneliness he chronicles makes even this remotest of locations feel close to home.”---People Magazine, 4 star review

“In a lush feat of historical speculation, Michael Parker imagines that Theo survived a pirate attack off the coast of North Carolina and lived out a long, conflicted life on one of the barrier islands. The Watery Part of the World — that evocative title comes from ­Moby-Dick — is an emotionally acute tale about a brilliant woman of privilege who must suddenly use her wits to avoid dismemberment, rape and starvation… … [Parker] lays out a bewitching triangle of dependent relationships in this inclement Gothic tale.”---Washington Post

"Parker’s complex world is stocked with compelling characters brought to life by elegant prose."---Publishers Weekly

“A remarkable story… The entire novel has a blue-green, underwater feel, a timeless forgetfulness.”---Los Angeles Times

“Parker slices open each isolated life with humor and gentleness, and the familiar battles with loss and loneliness he chronicles makes even this remotest of locations feel close to home.”---People

About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Parker is the author of, most recently, If You Want Me to Stay and Don’t Make Me Stop Now. Winner of the Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and an NEA fellowship, he has been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, The Oxford American, and others, and his fiction has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South. He is a professor in the MFA Writing Program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Michael Parker最近出版了《如果你想我留下》和《别让我停步》，曾获得霍普森杰出奖、北卡罗来纳文学奖和国家艺术基金。他曾经上过纽约时报杂志、华盛顿邮报、牛津美国词典等等。他的小说曾被选编到欧亨利小说奖集锦和南方新作中。他目前任教于北卡罗来纳大学。

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